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Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul and his Iranian counterpart Kamal Kharazi Wednesday discussed over the phone the Iraqi war and its repercussions.
Kharazi called Gul to exchange views on the US-led invasion of Iraq and its possible impact on their countries, Turkish Foreign Ministry spokesman Huseyin Dirioz told reporters here.
The two ministers discussed ways of providing humanitarian aid as both countries are bracing for a massive influx of Iraqi refugees stemming from the ongoing war in Iraq, Dirioz said.
Turkey and Iran, Iraq's two neighbors, hosted tens of thousands of Iraqi refugees in the first Gulf War in 1991.
With the war in Iraq intensifying, the two countries have stepped up preparation to deal with a possible new refugee crisis.
(Xinhua News Agency March 27, 2003)
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